-dontbreakme- Kharlie Stone -01.11.2016- Page

I click anyway. The file opens to a single photograph.

The date in the subject line is January 11, 2016. -DontBreakMe- Kharlie Stone -01.11.2016-

There’s a second photograph. Kharlie again, same jacket, same defiant tilt of her chin, but this time she’s holding a handwritten sign: I click anyway

Outside, the sky is doing that thing it does in early November—gray and gold and aching with the memory of October. My hands are steady. same defiant tilt of her chin

I open a new email. I type:

I scroll down.